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In this paper we aim at understanding if and how, by analysing people's profile and historical data (such as data available on Facebook profiles and interactions, or collected explicitly) we can motivate two persons to interact and eventually create long-term bonds. We do this by exploring the relationship between connectedness, social interactions and common life points on Facebook. The results are...
By weighing data extracted during the 2016 municipal election in Costa Rica from local-level political parties' Facebook pages the research elaborates an analysis based on the mobilization — normalization theses. From that perspective, the paper identifies the traits that characterize each party's communicational emphasis, specifically on whether such sites promote or limit deliberative behaviors...
The rapid growth of internet user and the popularity of social media network has changed how people interact and doing everyday activities. Indonesia Small Medium Enterprise Organizations, such as the retail industry has also started to uses various social media to market their product online. The rapid growth of internet user and the popularity of social media network has led to big data of online...
The author argues that much as ICTs are enablers for democracy, their practices are not always as intended. This paper explores factors that lead to unintended effects and the impact of such unintended effects on democracies. The unintended effects may turn out to be either positive or negative. Online case studies (such as mailing lists, social networks and online newspapers) and document analysis...
This study takes a network analysis perspective to understand communities of dissidents and allegiants formed on Facebook in relation to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Networks representing dissidents and allegiants were formed based on levels of liking and commenting and analyzed across ethnic groups. The results show that the dissident network is more diverse in terms of ethnic composition and has...
In recent years, Web 2.0 applications have found their way into organizational practice with increasing demand for corporate social software to support in-ternal (e.g. networking, knowledge transfer) and ex-ternal (e.g. user-interaction, collaboration) processes. Already organizational changes are starting to be-come visible, so our goal is to conduct an exploratory study in order to shed light on...
Social media (SM) has seen an exponential growth since its inception on the web, making it an interesting and unexplored area of research. The positives and the novelty of the SM sites have resulted in its integration to our daily lives. Unfortunately, there are repercussions to its adoption, including but not limited to uncontrollable daily dedicated hours; loneliness creating the need to use it...
The impact of digital technologies in education is a subject of extreme controversy among researchers. This article is within the scope of the characterization of the profile of this new students, intensive user of digital technologies in their various platforms (PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, digital games). Theories have been proposed in order to conceptualize the profile of this "new...
Social network sites (SNS) like Facebook allow users to add friends from a variety of contexts to a single general-purpose social network. The variety of friend types that gather on the site can lead to context collapse where connections from a variety of context are grouped in a single collection. This research examines the friend types who are commonly unfriended and examines two particular friend...
Social Network Site (SNS) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. From hundreds of SNS, Facebook is one of the most popular across a variety of demographic categories in Malaysia. Many extant researches on SNS adoption and use have focused on individual level and disregarding the family perspective. Apart from that, most of the studies are...
Internet is integrated into nearly all aspects of activities including businesses. It is a medium that can be accessed anywhere. The advancement of Internet has contributed to the development of electronic commerce and trust has been suggested in the literature to play an essential role in the development of e-commerce. Lately, e-commerce has also taken placed in a new platform, Social Networking...
The process of modernization, development and migration have much impacted the family size, functions and structure which consequently changing the ways of family communication. Therefore, communication technologies such as Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. Thus, the objective of this paper is to develop a...
The paper explores excavation as a metaphor or conceptual lens for gaining insights to cyber-structures enacted in virtual settlements. More importantly, we vision such excavations in the context of enlarged Internet of Things, an inter-connected world of online remains capable of providing a different lens on how to make sense of cyber-structures linked via and enacted through the Internet. The emphasis...
Political groups on social networking sites enable a new type of collaborative, political discourse among citizens. In this study, we show how political discourse in social media is distinct from prior studies of political groups on the Internet. Specifically, we use network analysis in combination with communication theory to examine conversational social networks that emerge from direct addressals...
As the popularity of interactive social media grows, it is increasingly normal for individuals to reveal significant amounts of personal information online. Although this information is intended to support social networks, it can potentially be misused. We hypothesize that access to routine network site profile information can enable individuals to foster feelings of interpersonal attraction in their...
This paper presents AFICUS, an architecture and implementation of a technology dedicated to pushing current Internet content consumer to become a prosumer (fully acting as content producer and consumer). To make this possible, AFICUS behaves as a middleware intercepting and analyzing the whole spectrum of the actual technological communications (mobile phone, social networks, IPTV, etc.). Thanks to...
Social-web giants -- like 4chan.org, reddit.com, andyoutube.com -- are quickly becoming the driving force behind content generation on the web. Because these sites have incredibly large user-bases and content is frequently cross-posted between social-sites, trending topics are often viewed by hundreds of millions of Internet users. The exposure of this content to the digital-mob has had numerous,...
While the use of the internet and social media as a tool for extremists and terrorists has been well documented, understanding the mechanisms at work has been much more elusive. This paper begins with a grounded theory approach guided by Foucault's analytic framework on psychiatric power that utilizes both terrorism cases and extremist social media groups to develop an explanatory model of radicalization...
In the fast evolving social web domain, users have a growing demand for consuming context-aware social experiences and digital content. However, users currently have their social context distributed everywhere, and have limited ownership and control of it. On the other hand, application developers and content providers are having a hard time in reaching out to the right users and creating personalized...
With rapid spread of acceptance and usage of Social Network Service (SNS, e.g., Facebook, Renren, Myspace), concerns about online information privacy have arisen. This paper explores the instruments of users' privacy concerns in the context of SNS. First, based on the relevant literature review, comparisons among four scales are discussed and necessities of new items are proposed. Then a pilot test...
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